Those Calypso Louie fans...
What will they think of next?
CNN is looking for a Tea Party connection.
"So numbed have I become by the endless replay of the fatuous clerical rantings of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright that it has taken me this long to remember the significant antecedent. In 1995, there appeared a documentary titled Brother Minister about the assassination of Malcolm X. It contained a secretly filmed segment showing Louis Farrakhan shouting at the top of his lungs in the Nation of Islam's temple in Chicago on "Savior's Day" in 1993. Farrakhan, verging on hysteria, demanded to know of the murdered Malcolm X: "If we dealt with him like a nation deals with a traitor, what the hell business is it of yours?" His apparent admission of what had long been suspected—that it was the Black Muslim leadership that ordered Malcolm's slaying—is not understood or remembered (or viewed) as often as it might be.
I invite you to look at the film of Farrakhan's sweating, yelling, paranoid face and to bear in mind that this depraved thug, who boasts of "dealing with" one of black America's moral heroes, is the man praised by Jeremiah Wright and referred to with respect as "Minister Farrakhan" by the senator who hopes to be the next president of the United States. ..."
.... .... .... "... Anyway, at quite an early stage in the text, Michelle Obama announces that she's much influenced by the definition of black "separationism" offered by Stokely Carmichael and Charles Hamilton in their 1967 screed Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America. I remember poor Stokely Carmichael quite well. After a hideous series of political and personal fiascos, he fled to Africa, renamed himself Kwame Toure after two of West Africa's most repellently failed dictators, and then came briefly back to the United States before electing to die in exile. I last saw him as the warm-up speaker for Louis Farrakhan in Madison Square Garden in 1985, on the evening when Farrakhan made himself famous by warning Jews, "You can't say 'Never Again' to God, because when he puts you in the ovens, you're there forever."I have the distinct feeling that the Obama campaign can't go on much longer without an answer to the question: "Are we getting two for one?" And don't be giving me any grief about asking this. Black Americans used to think that the Clinton twosome was their best friend, too. This time we should find out before it's too late to ask.
Funny, but I seem to have forgotten what else it was that you may have said, about Obama, and his friends, and whether or not you thought is best that such as those should be leaders of the Free World, as we fondly and re-assuringly to ourselves once liked to think of that.
Didn't you eventually turn more fully from the folly of the apologetic tone (within the middling portions of what I'd just borrowed from top & bottom of one of your essays) that you had initially offered towards Obama, and his Belle (as Rush once liked to say of the not so literate Michelle née Robinson)?
So what do you think, old chap?
From your present perch (I do hope your local weather forecast calls for Abundant Clouds & Fair winds, wherever you may be) is too late now, for the rest of things, and for the rest of us?
I cannot seem to make hide nor hair of it all myself, presently.
Would you think there be clear enough path for a future to arrive, which brings along with it some of the best (enough of the best) of our collective pasts & present blessings (what of those, there presently are) that there would be a future worth living for? If one had the chance to arrive there, of course.
Yet even if it were to be "too late" as that saying goes;
Even if it is, I do think we must soldier on. I mean, what else left is there to do?
Signed,
Why, he seems to be the same color as Jeb’s left hand!
something about the way that guy looks... he sort of looks like a cop himself.